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Macclesfield Bank is a vast, entirely submerged atoll and reef system located in the eastern part of the South China Sea. Named after the British ship HMS Macclesfield, it is administered by China as part of the Paracel and Zhongsha Island groups, though its ownership is also claimed by Taiwan and t...
A large shallow-water bank southwest of Jamaica covering roughly 8,000 km², valued for its productive commercial fishing and spiny lobster grounds.
Saba Bank Reef in the Caribbean Sea is one of the world's largest submarine atolls and was designated as a specially protected marine area by the Netherlands in 2010.
A shallow Caribbean bank administered by Colombia under a permanent naval garrison, also claimed by the United States, Honduras, and Nicaragua.
The Burma Banks Reef is a series of shallow submerged sea mounts in the Andaman Sea off Myanmar, noted for their remote offshore location and populations of silvertip sharks.
A remote coral atoll in the Caribbean Sea claimed by Colombia, Nicaragua, and the United States, with Colombia administering it as an ecological reserve.
A largely submerged Caribbean bank disputed by Colombia and the United States until the US formally relinquished its claims under a 1972 bilateral treaty.
A remote submerged bank in the western Caribbean Sea administered by Cuba, historically noted for disorienting navigators and difficult cartographic surveys.
A submerged bank in the western Caribbean Sea, part of the maritime zone whose ownership between Nicaragua and Honduras was settled by the ICJ in 2007.
Flower Garden Banks National Marine Sanctuary in the Gulf of Mexico, designated in 1992, hosts the northernmost coral reefs on the US continental shelf at about 180 km offshore Texas.
